SHORTLY after the counting trends showed that candidate Rodrigo Roa Duterte led the pack of presidential aspirants, criticism surfaced that his was going to be a national leadership based on small-town thinking.

THE reality of paid trolls who make a career out of creating discord online aside, I believe that much of the troll-like behavior could have been avoided had we been more mindful of internet safety and ethics encapsulated by the exhortation “think